Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million years if we capture just 0.1 percent of it.

The Grand Canyon’s formation began 2 billion years ago with a base of igneous and metamorphic rock ... silver, sapphire, coal, and copper have long attracted prospectors who dreamed of digging ...

Igneous rocks of various types are used for various purposes ... Sedimentary rocks, on the other hand, show different diagenetic patterns than magmatic rocks. In coal-measured layers, sedimentary rock ...

On 30 September 2024, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the UK’s last coal-fired power plant, shut off its last operating unit, Unit 4, for the last time. The shutdown marked the end of 142 years of coal-fired ...

The supposed energy transition from fossil fuels to a suite of government-supported alternatives like wind and solar has always seemed more of a marketing campaign than reality. It’s a ...

The coal industry continues to be one of the world’s largest suppliers of energy. In the United States alone, about half a billion short tons of coal are converted to energy every year.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Feb 17 (Reuters) - China's retaliatory tariffs against U.S. energy imports is likely to be most keenly felt in the seaborne market for metallurgical coal. Beijing imposed a ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

SINGAPORE - Construction and approvals for new coal-fired power plants in China surged in 2024, risking further lock-in of the dirty fuel and challenging the climate commitments of the world’s ...

(Bloomberg) -- Mongolia is aiming to increase its coal exports to China by almost a fifth this year, as it seeks to expand energy cooperation with its resource-hungry neighbor. The central Asian ...